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Fiyaz Mughal has a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience from University College London and also has a Masters Degree in Education and Business Administration.

His working history includes over 12 years experience in the community and voluntary sector in positions that have included social policy lobbying, project and general management and leading organizations as the Chief Operating Officer.

Fiyaz has worked in a number of organizations providing training to women right through to European transnational faith related programmes and advice and information projects. Currently, Fiyaz Mughal is the Chief Executive Officer for the Enfield Citizens Advice Bureaux and he is also the Director of a not for profit organization called Faith Matters which works on reducing extremism and developing platforms for discourse and interaction between Muslim and Jewish communities right across the UK. Fiyaz is also the Founder Director of two micro-finance projects to assist social entrepreneurism in Palestine and Israel and is also developing interfaith and conflict resolution projects bringing together communities from both countries.

Currently, Fiyaz is a Councillor in Haringey and was previously a Councillor in Oxford (2002-2004). A Deputy President of a mainstream political party in the UK, he has also campaigned heavily on Black and Minority Ethnic (group) inclusion within political parties and discourses. He was also appointed to be on the Working Group for Communities that was linked to the Extremism Task Force developed in 2005 after the 7/7 bombings.

Fiyaz Mughal is also the Job Centre Plus Portfolio Holder on the DWP Standards Board and has been a consultant to organizations that have included Working Links, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Enterprise Credit Union.

Post Office Closures will Have a Devastating Effect on Local Communities

Post Office Closures will Have a Devastating Effect on Local Communities The recent announcements that seven local post offices will be closing in the restructuring of Post Offices throughout the Capital will have a devastating impact on local communities. Those that affect Haringey include Highgate High Street, 100 Alexandra Park Road (N10), Ferme Park Road (N4), Salisbury Road (N22), 89 Weston Park (N8), Page Green (N15) and 434 West Green Road (N15).

Post Office Closures will Have a Devastating Effect on Local Communities

Post Office Closures will Have a Devastating Effect on Local Communities The recent announcements that seven local post offices will be closing in the restructuring of Post Offices throughout the Capital will have a devastating impact on local communities. Those that affect Haringey include Highgate High Street, 100 Alexandra Park Road (N10), Ferme Park Road (N4), Salisbury Road (N22), 89 Weston Park (N8), Page Green (N15) and 434 West Green Road (N15).

An Invasion of Gaming and Betting Venues in Wood Green

An Invasion of Gaming and Betting Venues in Wood Green

An Invasion of Gaming and Betting Venues in Wood Green

An Invasion of Gaming and Betting Venues in Wood Green

Hysterical Responses to the Archbishop Do Not Look At the Facts on The Ground

Hysterical Responses to the Archbishop Do Not Look At the Facts on The Ground Within 48 hours of the Archbishop making comments around religious inclusion and Shariah, there were press calls, comments and rabid responses for his resignation. This strain of fear is disproportionate and based on conjecture, myths and in some instances, xenophobia. But before I lay out these facts, there is something that I must clear up. The vast amount of Shariah Law covers financial elements, marriage and divorce and other codes for living life. It is not primarily around punishment. However, I for one as a Muslim and as a liberal to my very core, see Islam through the prism of emancipation and knowledge sharing. This means having the chance to question, to debate, to discuss and therefore Shariah is a theoretical and practical framework which must be looked through within a modern context. This therefore means ardently protecting women’s rights, respect for diversity in all of its forms (the first convert to Islam was a black man), providing the space for dissent, education for all and emancipation from debt by taking out interest in financial transactions. These are just some examples of what I regard Islam to be about. It should be a driver against poverty, against fear and xenophobia and it should be a driver against ignorance. I have to also add, that I cannot accept two legal systems as a citizen of the UK and the resulting confusion and isolation for Muslims if this were to happen would in the long term, provide a foundation to those who want to portray Muslims as the ‘other’ and therefore somehow different. We should not give them that chance.

Hysterical Responses to the Archbishop Do Not Look At the Facts on The Ground

Hysterical Responses to the Archbishop Do Not Look At the Facts on The Ground Within 48 hours of the Archbishop making comments around religious inclusion and Shariah, there were press calls, comments and rabid responses for his resignation. This strain of fear is disproportionate and based on conjecture, myths and in some instances, xenophobia. But before I lay out these facts, there is something that I must clear up. The vast amount of Shariah Law covers financial elements, marriage and divorce and other codes for living life. It is not primarily around punishment. However, I for one as a Muslim and as a liberal to my very core, see Islam through the prism of emancipation and knowledge sharing. This means having the chance to question, to debate, to discuss and therefore Shariah is a theoretical and practical framework which must be looked through within a modern context. This therefore means ardently protecting women’s rights, respect for diversity in all of its forms (the first convert to Islam was a black man), providing the space for dissent, education for all and emancipation from debt by taking out interest in financial transactions. These are just some examples of what I regard Islam to be about. It should be a driver against poverty, against fear and xenophobia and it should be a driver against ignorance. I have to also add, that I cannot accept two legal systems as a citizen of the UK and the resulting confusion and isolation for Muslims if this were to happen would in the long term, provide a foundation to those who want to portray Muslims as the ‘other’ and therefore somehow different. We should not give them that chance.

An Explosion of Gaming Venues in Wood Green

Anyone who takes a leisurely stroll on the High Road in Wood Green, will see the explosion of gaming venues that have brought an associated anti-social element to them. The first thing I would like to say is that such gaming venues would never have been allowed in areas like Muswell Hill. There would have been objections and furious local action, yet raft after raft of gaming venues have been approved for licenses and planning permission in Wood Green.

Bosnia All Over Again?

Bosnia All Over Again? Kosovan independence is stoking up the same old fears in the Balkans and one of those fears is the threat of military action against the Kosovar Albanian population by Serbia and its proxies within the area. The current situation whilst somewhat different to Bosnia in the 1990’s, has a few key similarities. Then as now a nation wanted to declare independence and there were Serbs residing in Bosnia as they are in Kosovo, though the numbers are smaller. Also, Kosovo holds a religious significance for the Serbs when they defeated the Ottomans around 1390 and the religious significance of Bosnia as being a ‘Christian territory’ was also touted during the bloody campaign against Bosnian forces during 1992-1995. We all know how Bosnia ended, with the siege of Sarajevo, the shelling of civilians and the atrocities in the killing fields of places like Srebrenica. All were conducted in the name of the Serb nation by paramilitaries of Republika Srpska and Serbian regular forces. In the end these killings had nothing to do with religion, but with the power crazed hunger and manipulation of a nation by Slobodan Milosevic.

Bosnia All Over Again?

Bosnia All Over Again? Kosovan independence is stoking up the same old fears in the Balkans and one of those fears is the threat of military action against the Kosovar Albanian population by Serbia and its proxies within the area. The current situation whilst somewhat different to Bosnia in the 1990’s, has a few key similarities. Then as now a nation wanted to declare independence and there were Serbs residing in Bosnia as they are in Kosovo, though the numbers are smaller. Also, Kosovo holds a religious significance for the Serbs when they defeated the Ottomans around 1390 and the religious significance of Bosnia as being a ‘Christian territory’ was also touted during the bloody campaign against Bosnian forces during 1992-1995. We all know how Bosnia ended, with the siege of Sarajevo, the shelling of civilians and the atrocities in the killing fields of places like Srebrenica. All were conducted in the name of the Serb nation by paramilitaries of Republika Srpska and Serbian regular forces. In the end these killings had nothing to do with religion, but with the power crazed hunger and manipulation of a nation by Slobodan Milosevic.

Bosnia all over again?

Kosovan independence is stoking up the same old fears in the Balkans and one of those fears is the threat of military action against the Kosovar Albanian population by Serbia and its proxies within the area. The current situation whilst somewhat different to Bosnia in the 1990’s, has a few key similarities.

Bosnia all over again?

Kosovan independence is stoking up the same old fears in the Balkans and one of those fears is the threat of military action against the Kosovar Albanian population by Serbia and its proxies within the area. The current situation whilst somewhat different to Bosnia in the 1990’s, has a few key similarities.

The Case of the Teddy and Resonances of the Salman Rushdie Affair

The Case of the Teddy and Resonances of the Salman Rushdie Affair